...there's an outside chance Minnesota will be able to hang onto all its Congressional seats.

Seriously for all the hoopla, the short form Census is unbelieveably short and simple... military industrial Harris Corporation is developing the master files and other spooky stuff (the insecure GPS handhelds as well), you can read Census privacy docs on Cryptome.org. But in any case, well, if you don't send in a response, the the Gubmint will send people anyway...
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Hongpong.com

Taiwanese-Americans spread the word to increase 2010 census numbers

San Jose Mercury News, By Joe Rodriguez, March 30

When Grace Hwang Lynch fills out the census questionnaire that arrived at her San Jose home recently, she will think back to how her father greeted a census taker 30 years ago and follow his lead: She will ignore the box marked Chinese, and carefully write in "Taiwanese."

"He felt that strongly about his Taiwanese identity," Hwang said, "and he's told every census since then that he's Taiwanese."

Hwang is joining a growing Taiwanese-American movement that is using the power of the Internet to increase its census count, a result that could benefit her community — but has already irritated mainland China.

The effort is more than just political statement. While there is no Taiwanese box for them to mark, people who write the word on their form are counted as Taiwanese, just as the U.S. government would count Vietnamese, Japanese and other Asian groups.

They don't want to send in their census data, they will be under-represented in the house and state representatives. Less crazy, more liberal. Sounds like a semi self correcting system to me.

It's that the have trouble counting higher than three.

The form has no provision for 1, 2, 3, this 'un, that 'un, red haired 'un, small 'un and baby.

Except for the fact that article I, Section 2, as originally ratified states:

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct."

We no longer exclude "Indians" and we don't count slaves (those who were not "free Persons") as 3/5th of a person. But every 10 years we count all the people in this country as the Constitution, as amended, specifically directs.

The part in "bold", above, is still part of our Constitution. In fact, it pre-dates the right to bear arms.

How ya like them apples, Teabaggers?